The Charles Harris Library Gallery is pleased to present That Passed the Time,
by Clover Archer. Archer's exhibition is a futile attempt to
determine the fundamental origin of meaning while simultaneously
acknowledging the impossibility and absurdity of such an endeavor.
Using Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
as a starting point, Archer sets up a repetitive drawing process
leading to ever more elements to be analyzed. Using a series of
unrelated books, Archer redacts all of the type excepting letters that
spell out the dialogue to Beckett's 1949 play. Her arbitrary and
subjective analytical systems create compelling configurations out of
paragraphs, indents, blocked letters, negative spaces, and
illustrations from the book pages. The ephemera created (stencils,
mathematical measurements, smudged paper scraps, etc) points to the
tragicomedy of existence in which meaning, purpose, or rationale is
impossible to intuit with any certainty.

Clover Archer will give an artist talk in conjunction with the exhibition. The lecture is open to the public and will take place Friday, March 5th at 12pm in the Gilliam Center for the Arts' Band Roomon the campus of the University of Virginia's College at Wise.

This exhibition is part
of MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts, the
first statewide celebration of its kind. Between March and June of
2010, thousands of special programs and events will occur across the
Commonwealth to honor contributions by women to arts and culture. Learn
more about this unprecedented collaboration by visiting:www.vamindswideopen.org.

About the Artist:Clover
Archer received her MFA from New York University where she was
1992-2000 fellowship recipient. Archer has exhibited nationally in solo
and group exhibitions for fifteen years and has taught photography at
University of New Hampshire, New York University, and Washington and
Lee University. She is currently the Director of Staniar Gallery at
Washington and Lee University. In her work, she explores the complexity
between perception and interpretation through various forms of media
and emphasizes the arbitrariness and subjectivity of conceptual systems.